The Rise and Fall of the $100 Million Company That Taught America to Compute
For more than two decades, John Scherer (aka, the “Video Professor”) made millions by selling educational products to the public, mostly through late-night infomercials and on home-shopping networks like QVC.

November 17, 2016 at 11:45AM
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Can’t Imagine Shapes in 4 Dimensions? Just Print Them Out
Last year, Henry Segerman discovered that he has aphantasia — he can’t visualize things with his mind alone. As a specialist in complex shapes, Segerman gets the visualizing done by bringing the shapes into the real world.

November 17, 2016 at 07:44AM
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Chrysler Unveils Plug-In Hybrid Electric Pacifica Minivan
Forget the $100,000 Tesla Model X: This is the real electric for the every-family.

November 17, 2016 at 06:49AM
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Quick, Draw!
In this (addictively) fun game, Google’s AI tries to guess what you’re doodling. It gets a fair number wrong (hey, it’s learning), but it also makes some pretty impressive identifications.

November 17, 2016 at 06:49AM
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Viral Fake Election News Outperformed Real News On Facebook In Final Months Of The Election
A BuzzFeed News analysis found that top fake election news stories generated more total engagement on Facebook than top election stories from 14 major mainstream news outlets.

November 16, 2016 at 06:03PM
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Another Earth might exist right next door — and this dinky DIY telescope may be the first to see it
Project Blue wants to pick up where NASA research trailed off. Their goal is to send a telescope about the size of a washing machine into space and focus it on Alpha Centauri.

November 16, 2016 at 04:53PM
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I Used Mind Control to Fly a Honeywell Plane
While not quite as simple as “think up, fly up,” it’s close.

November 16, 2016 at 12:46PM
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This $5 Device Can Hack Your Locked Computer In One Minute
Next time you go out for lunch and leave your computer unattended at the office, be careful. A new tool makes it almost trivial for criminals to log onto websites as if they were you, and get access to your network router, allowing them to launch other types of attacks.

November 16, 2016 at 11:47AM
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Your life will be a video game
Whether or not you play video games today, you will in the future.

November 16, 2016 at 11:47AM
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Quit Wasting Time On Phone Games And Make Chiptunes Instead
So long as you aren’t completely deaf, you can — and should — make music of your own by simply arranging a some squares on a grid.

November 16, 2016 at 08:24AM
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